[LAU] Level Matching

[Anders Dahnielson]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 18:25, Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:28:51 +0000 (GMT)
> Luigi Curzi <luigi_curzi at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> > --- Gio 6/11/08, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> ha scritto:
> >
> > > Da: Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net>
> > > Oggetto: Re: [LAU] Level Matching
> > > A: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
> > > Data: Giovedì 6 novembre 2008, 00:48
> > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:15:47PM +0000, Folderol wrote:
> > >
> > > > What I've done is to store the originals, for
> > > possible future needs,
> > > > and used this program on the copies. Because I'm
> > > using it to actually
> > > > change the levels, and in this mode it does the
> > > translation my
> > > > converting the files to wav format first, I've
> > > chosen the option to
> > > > convert them all back to ogg, hopefully minimising any
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > I was just going to ask: is it possible to modify an MP3
> > > (without fully decoding/recoding it) in such I way that
> > > only the level is changed ?
> > >
> >
> > with replaygain script (a frontend to replaygain, aacgain, mp3gain ecc
> ecc) in amarok, you can analyze an audio file and normalize it without
> re-encoding; "it will store the information in tags" (
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26073).
> >
> > ciao
> > Luigi
>
> Yes. I was aware of that, but it is of no help when the files will be
> played on a simple player, or a machine that doesn't have a program
> like amarok
>

I just want to chime in and say that replay gain isn't anything Amarok
specific, many players support it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_gain

-- 
Anders Dahnielson
<anders at dahnielson.com>
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